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The tale ›The Rebel‹ describes an unsuccessful attempt by the soldier Robert Boor, who had released a fatally wounded comrade from his suffering by shooting him in the head during the war, to try to re-establish a normal life after the war. Gramatté’s series begins with a portrait of the shot comrade and ends, like the tale, with the image of an eternal fall, as Robert’s life had been robbed of its basis: »With Robert swelled a horror of the inescapable so that, hitting out senselessly with both arms, to the floor he fell and fell, fell, fell…« (M. Georg).